New Alaska Pharmacy Regulations, Effective March 17, 2022

Notice of Adopted Changes to the Regulations of the Board of Pharmacy

"On November 18, 2021, the Board of Pharmacy adopted regulation changes in Title 12, Chapter 52 of the Alaska Administrative Code. The regulations amend 12 AAC 52 to update requirements concerning Alaska’s prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP), as they relate to registration and renewal. Additionally, these regulations add a new section to 12 AAC 52 requiring that a pharmacist or pharmacy that has a change in PDMP status prohibiting that pharmacist or pharmacy from dispensing controlled substances be required to report that change in status to the department.

The regulation changes were reviewed and approved by the Department of Law, signed and filed by the Lieutenant Governor on February 15, 2022, and will go into effect on March 17, 2022. Please click here to see the filed version of the regulations.

The new regulation changes will be printed in Register 241, April 2022 of the Alaska Administrative Code."

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• The email address which the pharmacist uses to register with the PDMP must be used EXCLUSIVELY by the pharmacist, i.e. no other person can, by law, have access to that email address.

• A pharmacist, or pharmacy, MUST notify the board of pharmacy within 10-days, using a form provided by the department, if there is a change in their dispensing or distributing of controlled substances status.

  • Because there is now a 10-day timeframe to notify the board when there is a change in your dispensing and distributing of controlled substances status, if you notify them AFTER this window you may be referred to state investigation for failure to adhere to this law. This could then result in disciplinary action by the board.